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8
SAFE HARBOR STATEMENTS UNDER THE PRIVATE SECURITIES LITIGATION REFORM ACT OF 1995
Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters set forth herein (including any guidance on future products, future
marketing efforts, future effects of Year 2000 software issues, and future revenues, margins, expenses, and earnings) are forward-looking
statements that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those set forth in the
forward looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, among others: potential fluctuations in quarterly results due to the
seasonality of Creative’s business and the difficulty of projecting such fluctuations; the vulnerability of certain markets to currency
fluctuations and credit shortages; reductions in the market value of products sold by Creative, including increases in supply or declines
in demand or prices for CD-ROM or DVD drives, board and chip-level products, and software products; the short product cycles that
characterize most of Creative’s products; the increasing proliferation of sound functionality in new products from new and existing
competitors and at the application software, chip and operating system levels; the increasing assertion of patents and other litigation claims
affecting Creative and/or its suppliers, in areas including 3-D graphics and audio chip designs; Creative’s reliance on sole sources or near-
sole sources for many of its chips and other key components and possible limitations on future availability of graphic chips, memory chips,
and passive components used in Creative’s products; the timely ramp, delivery and market acceptance of new products, including Creative’s
next generation audio, graphics accelerator, CD-ROM and DVD drives and communications products; the volatility of share prices for
companies in Creative’s industry and the effect of those prices or other events beyond Creative’s control; the uncertainties inherent in
identifying and correcting all Year 2000 issues in computer codes used by Creative and its suppliers and vendors; and other risk factors
described in Creative’s Annual Report on Form 20F for fiscal 1999 filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Creative
undertakes no obligation to publicly release the results of any revisions to such forward-looking statements which may be made to reflect
events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations